.....ewwww! It got trapped in the netting and died.
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Friday, August 27, 2010
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Turkeys in the garden
These turkeys are getting big and clumsy now. They are a little hard on the plants. I saw one tear up a pumpkin leaf trying to eat all the squash bug eggs off of it. Overall, the turkeys don't do enough damage to be a problem yet. I still like them MUCH better than chickens. I can herd them up at night so easily, they lead like a dream. Where as the chickens run around like you are trying to eat them right there and then!
Fall chicken crop
Got 40 Cornish cross yesterday to be processed on Oct 21st. Learned lots of information from David H. on cost of feeding them out.
Roughly, it takes 12lbs of feed to finish one. At .30 cents a pound for non-certified organic feed from Ohio, that is $3.60 a chicken. Add in 1.00 each to buy the chicks. It takes 134 miles roundtrip to pick up the chicks and feed, and another trip to process them and that totals to 268 miles. Divide that by 15 miles a gallon and multiply by $2.79 a gallon for diesel and then divide by 50 birds (40 chickens and 10 turkeys) to be processed. That comes to $1.00 a bird for the fuel cost. Lastly, add in $2.48 a bird to have it processed.
So these birds cost me 8.08 each not including my labor.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Monday, August 16, 2010
No it's not Pacman
It's Savannah's perfect quiche! I had to laugh when I overheard her and her friend today as they were making cookies for a party. Savannah said, oh no we are out of eggs we will have to go to the coop. And her friend said, I thought you were going to say that we have to go to the store!
Sunday, August 15, 2010
And still they come
I've been searching for this horned worm in the tomatoes for three days now, but something got to him before I did. Either the BT that I sprayed, or maybe a wasp got him. I did find two of his very healthy brethren nearby.
First pumpkin in the patch!
There are lots of male blooms in the pumpkin patch, but this was the first fruit. It is a Cheese Pumpkin. I've been fighting vine borers, stink bugs, squash bugs, green loopy worms, weeds and the extreme temperatures and lack of rain to try to baby these pumpkin plants as much as possible. If I can only get them through to the mid of September, I'll feel like we made it.
It's too hot to let the water run low
But these 5 gallon waterers for the birds are heeeeavy! The 19 turkeys go through one of these a day when they are kept penned up. The chickens go through much less.
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